- Glenn Shuck
Glenn W. Shuck is an
Assistant Professor in theReligion Department atWilliams College in Williamstown,Massachusetts . He received hisPh.D. fromRice University , and is best known as a scholar ofNorth America nevangelicalism .His book "Marks of the Beast: The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical Identity," was published by
NYU Press in 2005. He followed this with a collection of original essays co-edited with Jeffrey J. Kripal ofRice University on theEsalen Institute in California, published byIndiana University Press in 2005. Shuck's scholarship and teaching also focuses onNew Religious Movement s in theUnited States as well as theProtestant Reformation and contemporary trends in religion and politics and apocalypticism and millennial movements. His current work focuses on the roots and consequences of American cultural pessimism, with a book co-written with John M. Stroup expected in Fall 2007 fromBaylor University Press. His publishing and pedagogy is also heavily influenced by insights provided by American Continental philosophers, especiallyMark C. Taylor ofWilliams College and Edith Wyschogrod ofRice University . He received his B.A. fromTexas Lutheran University in German Studies, and maintains an active interest in German theology and politics, and has published an article in German in the theological periodical "Zeitzeichen" titled "Trojanisches Pferd imKulturkampf : Die apocalyptischenLeft Behind -Romane sind Teil eines evangelikalen Kulturkampfes.
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